Strip-serving device



F. S. ANABLE.

STRIP SERVING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 19. 1914.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK S. ANABLE, OF BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO NATIONALBINDING MACHINE COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OFMAINE.

STRIP-SERVING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 22, 1916.

Original application filed August 19, 1908, Serial No. 449,320. Dividedand this application filed December 19, 1914. Serial No. 878,152.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK S. AN- ABLE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and Stateof Massachusetts, (whose post-office address is 53 State street, Boston,Massachusetts,) have invented an Improvement in Strip-Serving Devices,of which the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawingsrepresenting like parts.

This invention relates to devices or apparatus for supplying strips ofpaper or the like employed for wrapping or binding packages or for useas labels of any desired length, and has particular reference to thattype of apparatus employing a support for a coil of paper strippreviously gummed and then dried, and having provisions for moisteningthe gum upon the strip as the latter is drawn from its coil.

It is apparent that an ungummed strip of paper or the like may beemployed, in which case the moistening device for the strip suit ablypositioned with respect thereto would contain an adhesive instead ofwater.

This application is a division of my 00- pending application Serial No.449,320, filed August 19, 1908.

In order that the principle of the invention may be clearly understood,I have disclosed a single embodiment thereof in the accompanyingdrawing, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of a strip serving deviceembodying one form of my invention; Fig. 2 is a plan view of a portionof the device shown in Fig. 1.

The strip support is represented at 1, it being of any suitableconstruction and being preferably a case wherein a roll of paper may besuitably supported and tensioned. Herein it is represented as mountedupon a base 2. Suitably secured to the base is a reservoir 3 havingtherein or operatively related thereto a moistener l of any suitableconstruction. Herein the moistener is represented as a wiclcing havingits ends depending into the tank or reservoir. In the form of theinvention herein shown the moistener is supported by a spring 5 whichnormally projects the same toward the service path of the strip, butupon the application of spring pressure to the moistener the spring 5yields and the moistener is moved downwardly from the normal servicepath of the strip. Any other suitable form of moistening device may,however, be employed. A suitable severing device is employed, which isherein shown as a blade 6 positioned between the moistener and the stripsupport. If desired and as here shown the severing blade and themoistener are so related that during the moistening operation, the bladeis guarded by the moistener. This however, is not necessary within thescope and purpose of my invention.

Referring to that embodiment of the invention wherein the blade isguarded by the moistener, I have provided suitable means whereby whenthe moistener is subjected to strip pressure, it is depressed or movedfrom its normal position and the blade 6 is thereupon exposed so thatthe strip is severed.

Irrespective of the particular form and relation of the moistener andsevering blade, I employ suitable means to retract the strip after theseveraing operation. The retractor employed for this purpose ispositioned between the strip support and the moistener and operates todraw the strip longitudinally of itself away from the moistener afterthe severing operation. For this purpose I have herein provided levers 7pivoted at 8 upon the reservoir and preferably having strip holdingmembers, herein shown as rolls 9, 10, adjustably spring pressed towardeach other. To the lower ends of the lever 7 are connected springs 11,whose opposite ends are adapted to be suitably connected to pins 12extending from the walls of the reservoir 3. If desired, stops 13 may beemployed to limit the swinging movement of said levers.

It will be observed that the retractor, herein comprising the lever 7,operates to draw the strip longitudinally of itself away from themoistener after strip severance. So far as I am aware, I am the first inthis art to employ a retraetor acting to'move the strip in its servicepath away from the moistener after strip severance.

Having thus described one illustrative embodiment of my invention, Idesire it to be understood that although specific terms are employed,they are used in a generic and descriptive sense and not for purposes oflimitation, the scope of the invention being set forth in the followingclaims.

Claims:

1. In a machine of the character described, the combination of acontainer for a roll of gummed tape, a moistener, a retractorintermediate the said container and the said m'oistener, and operatingto draw the tape longitudinally thereof away from the moistener.

2.1n a machine of the character described, the combination of acontainer for a roll of gummed tape, a moistener, a strip severing bladebetween the moistener and the container, and a retractor intermediatethe said container and the said moistener, and operating to draw thetape longitudinally thereof away from the moistener after the severingaction.

3.1n a machine of the character described, a strip support, a moistener,and a retractor operating to draw the strip longitudinally from themoistener.

4. In a machine of the character described, a strip support, amoistener, a severing device, and a retractor operating to draw thestrip longitudinally from the moistener.

5. In amachine of the character described, a strip support, a moistener,and a retractor intermediate the said support and the said moistener andoperating to draw the strip longitudinally from the moistener.

6. In a machine of the character described, a strip support, amoistener, and a cooperating strip retractor located to move the freeend of the strip to such position between the strip support and themoistener that such free strip end is out of moistening relation to themoistener.

7. In a machine of the character described, a strip support, amoistener, a severing device, and a cooperating strip retractor locatedto move the free end of the strip to such position between the stripsupport and the moistener that such free strip end is out of moisteningrelation to the moistener.

8. In a machine of the character de scribed, a strip support, amoistener, a severing device in the rear of the moistener and a stripretractor 7 located to move the free end of the strip to such positionbetween the strip support and the moistener that such free strip end isout of moistening relation to the moistener.

9. The improved molstener comprising a container for a roll of gummedtape, moistenlng means, and a retractor comprising a member movablealong the path of the gummed tape when it is drawn out and op-' eratingto draw the tape longitudinally thereof away from the moistener uponstrip severance.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK S. ANABLE.

Witnesses:

IRVING A. TOWNSEND, ROBERT H. KAMMLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

